Songs of the Dead is a collection of nineteen short stories with varying themes, ranging from creepy to the supernatural.In "The Dinner Guests," a man finds himself experiencing an unusual hunger.In "She Had a Good Heart," a young heart transplant survivor meets her donor's family for the first time. What could go wrong?In "Dobie's Last Ride," a man finds himself at odds with a seemingly harmless black Lab, who turns out to be a bit less harmless as he firs...

Lefty is a black hitman working for the Chicago mob. Tasked with eliminating a mark, he kills the man and his wife, only to learn they have an infant daughter. Realizing the child is now alone in the world, Lefty takes her in and decides to raise her as his own.Years later, Lefty embarks on a trip across the country to pick up a freelance contract: a once-in-a-lifetime hit with a two million dollar paycheck. Together with two-ex-colleagues and his daughter, they head to Detroit to ...

A fast food joint under attack. A chicken car crashing parades. A man who won’t die.In BURGERS ON THE SABBATH, Andy Rausch unleashes a chaotic blend of dark humor, surreal horror and satire across 13 unforgettable short stories.Meet a group of extremists storming a burger joint and witness a deranged dreamer chasing infamy. Follow the haunting trail of a man who messages his dead brother... and gets a reply. In this world, even death row can’t contain a man who simply won’t...

Three psychological thrillers by Andy Rausch, now available in one volume!Let It Kill You: Chino Genetti, an alcoholic hitman, breaks the first rule of his profession: don't fall in love with your target. When he's assigned to eliminate beautiful jazz singer Ericka Green, love clouds his judgment and he puts himself in danger. Fleeing from assassins, Chino makes a deal to live in peace, but old wounds and retribution threaten to take away everything he loves. To pr...

When his young granddaughter Allie is suddenly abducted from a restaurant in rural Missouri, police officer Denny Davis' life takes a devastatingly dark turn.After thirteen years, a fruitless manhunt has turned him into a troubled alcoholic plagued by guilt - but a twist of fate leads him stumbling down an unexpected path.Trapped in a sinister game and shocked at its players, can Denny find revenge - and redemption - as he finally comes face to face with the perpetrator?

Chino Genetti is about to break one of the first rules of being a hitman: don't fall in love with your target.The alcoholic assassin's life changes when he receives the assignment to eliminate beautiful jazz singer Ericka Green. When love clouds his judgement and he forgoes his loyalty to crime boss Cocoa, he ends up a target himself. On the run from assassins, Chino makes a begrudging deal to live in peace, but old wounds and retribution threaten to take away everything he loves.

“The Suicide Game is dark, twisted, no-holds-barred fun.” - Jason Starr, author of Bust, Slide, and The MaxEveryone’s playing an angle in the City of Angels.The Suicide Game tells the stories of a black hitman who doubles as a university professor, a Catholic priest who longs to be a gangster, a would-be author from Kansas, a gay phone sex operator who claims he’s straight, a group of rich twenty-somethings playin...

After small-time mobster Joe D'Amato gets attacked by a werewolf, his life takes a dark turn, and he begins a transformation towards a new, twisted life.As corpses start piling up, two cops suspect there is something unnatural on the loose, and they have a suspect. When nobody listens to their theories, they go rogue and start digging for clues.Soon, forces both natural and supernatural clash, and all hell breaks loose.This book contains graphic sex and violence...

Six-Guns Blazing contains two explosive short novels featuring historical figures from the Old West in wildly fictional new adventures.The first, Wyatt Earp and the Devil Incarnate, pits the legendary lawman and his right-hand man, Doc Holliday, against a deadly serial killer leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.The second novella, Emmett Dalton Rides Again!, imagines notorious bank robber Emmett Dalton picking up his guns as an elderly man in 1933 and robbing banks a...

A collection of 20 weird and far-out stories, these unique tales cover a lot of ground.“Searching for Dirty Jesus” follows a live-action roleplayer on a search for his father's killer. In “Chicken Car” a down-on-his-luck man devises a plan to achieve notoriety, through any means necessary.What if a man with a Gila-Monster head decided to try his luck with online dating? What if the government conducted a secret experiment in which they altered the color of people's skin? Wh...

After five years of living a quiet life in rural Oklahoma, hitman Lefty Collins and his daughter Layla's past comes back to haunt them when the Detroit mob boss who let them go kidnaps Layla to force Lefty and his former rival Orlando Williams to do his bidding.This time, the job isn't murder - they must track down a deadly serial killer. With time running out, Lefty and Orlando must work together to find the killer before it's too late.From acclaimed author Andy Rausch com...

In this classic vampire thriller, a serious, staid grad student embraces her darker side to escape her abductors—and a deadly conspiracy.Toronto graduate student Ardeth Alexander lives by her schedule. There is no room for excitement in between classes, papers, and research jobs. She is known for being responsible, dependable—and perhaps a little boring. But all that changes during a routine morning walk when she is abducted by two thugs.Blindfolded and taken...